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Leading up to the July 11 MLB All-Star Game in Miami, we’re counting down the 10 most memorable All-Star moments in Marlins history.
No. 7: Dan Uggla's ugly night
Year: 2008 at Yankee Stadium, New York
Result: AL 4, NL 3 (15 innings)
Notable:

PHOENIX - Major League Baseball's trade deadline arrived more than 10 days ago, but it doesn't mean major league teams are finished shopping for roster upgrades. The Phillies traded for a vital piece of their 2008 championship run in August: home-run hero...

The Texas Rangers announced Wednesday that former All-Star player Michael Young is coming back to the organization as a special assistant to the general manager.
Young, the team's longtime captain before he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in...

Let’s begin with the premise that you have to play baseball with a third baseman. Pretty sure it’s in the rules. And let’s further go out on a metaphorical limb and conclude the Dodgers currently do not have one.
What to do?
The only two options...

What initially looked like an unfolding crisis quickly turned into the Dodgers' loudest statement of the postseason — even louder than the fans at Dodger Stadium who mocked the Atlanta Braves on Sunday night by mimicking the Tomahawk Chop.
In defeating...

While the Dodgers were on their way to dropping a 2-1 decision to the Colorado Rockies in their regular-season finale Sunday at Dodger Stadium, they learned whom they face in the National League division series.
The St. Louis Cardinals secured the best...

If Yasiel Puig, Andre Ethier, Carl Crawford and Matt Kemp are all healthy, who would be the Dodgers' starting outfielders?
The only time Don Mattingly has had to answer the question was on July 5, the one day this season all four outfielders were...

SAN DIEGO — If the Dodgers are to go far in October, they're going to have to start winning in September. At least that has been the trend recently, with three of the last five World Series winners posting the best record in the last full month of the...

PHOENIX — The next time the Dodgers walk off the field, they could do so as division champions.
With Matt Kemp and Hanley Ramirez back in their lineup Tuesday night, the Dodgers trounced the Arizona Diamondbacks, 9-3, and reduced their magic number to...

Josh Hamilton was still getting the hang of being a big leaguer.
Hamilton showed up in the majors belatedly but abruptly, after a three-year suspension for drug use and 15 games in the minor leagues. The Cincinnati Reds took a flier on him, and he hit 19...

And now presenting those loooosing Dodgers. That’s right, the Dodgers -- destroyers of worlds -- are in a funk.
They fell, 4-3, in 10 innings to the Cincinnati Reds, leaving them with their first three-game losing streak in three months.
Three losses...

As the Dodgers sprint toward the postseason, their president still can't forget the guy who stopped running.
It was the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. Stan Kasten's Atlanta Braves were locked in a scoreless tie with the host...

DENVER — If Michael Young is to be believed, his childhood idol was Don Mattingly.
"It's not going to get him in the lineup any faster," Mattingly said, jokingly.
Smiling, Mattingly added, "We'll see what he says when the season's over."
Young,...

When Michael Young joins the Dodgers on Monday, he will pursue his first World Series championship ring from a new vantage point.
Young, 36, is a 14-year veteran and seven-time All-Star. For the first time in his career, he will not be a regular.
"He...

The first of September arrived and the Dodgers wasted no time in calling up reserves.
They leave after Sunday afternoon’s game against the Padres for Denver, but fresh troops arrived in Los Angeles immediately, not bothering to wait and join the team...

The Dodgers have won in a lot of different ways this season, but they haven't specialized in come-from-behind victories.Before Saturday night, they were 5-38 when trailing after six innings. And there they were in the bottom of the seventh inning,...

PHILADELPHIA — During their recent 10-game winning streak, the Dodgers turned the page quickly after each victory, refusing to linger on any one victory. So it seemed only fitting that when the streak came to an end Sunday they didn't dwell on that result...

And then the strangest thing happened.
The Dodgers lost.
It’s true, it happened. There were witnesses and everything.
The Dodgers proved all too human Sunday, a pair of Hanley Ramirez errors in the ninth inning allowing the Phillies to score the...